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MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a Status Yellow snow/ice warning for the entire country, to take effect at midnight and last until 8am.
It comes a day after Storm Jorge passed through the country, and leading to several weather alerts – including a Status Red warning – being issued around the country.
Jorge, which brought strong winds of over 130 kilometres per hour in parts of Galway, had seen Met Éireann issue a Status Red warning for Galway and Clare for parts of Saturday, while a Status Orange wind warning was issued for the rest of the country.
At 4pm today, Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow snow/ice warning.
It said: “Showers will continue to affect the western half of the country overnight, increasingly falling as sleet, or possibly snow in few places. With minimum air temperatures near zero or below countrywide, some icy stretches are likely by morning.”
A widespread frost is expected tonight with overnight lows of 0 to -2 degrees.
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I find it odd that the story hasn’t been given the coverage it deserves. The woman was stabbed for no reason other than the fact she was Jewish. People are very quick to criticise when European or American Jews decide to move to Israel but are very quiet as to why they are flocking there in record numbers. The sad reality is that it is a very dangerous time to be Jewish in Europe.
The ICI is very quiet lately. I would have thought of all people Denise Charlatan should now be invited by the Journal.ie to write an article on this. She had plenty of free publicity for long enough to spout unchallenged propaganda. She talks about anti-trafficking laws constantly and I’d like to see her thoughts on open borders.
I completely agree, calling someone like this a “mastermind ” makes it sound complimentary . He should be shown absolutely no recognition, intended or not for his inhuman actions.
There’s nothing wrong with multiculturalism.. Apart from certain Muslims who are fundamentalists and don’t want to change and don’t respect certain countries laws and ways if life .. Look at Canada? One of the finest countries in the world and it’s full of multiculturalism.. There’s no problem with Chinese in Ireland, Japanese, Indian, British, Spanish, American etc.. It’s just certain backward Muslims people are afraid of.. That doesn’t make me racist. It’s a fact
There isn’t a problem with Muslims in Europe, Sertorius. There is most definitely a problem in France with the unintegrated North African community, and there has been for a long time. Where socio-economic divisions also fall along religious divisions, fanatical religious nutjobs find plenty of willing victims to brainwash.
@MulticultBloodbath. …….And mostly Euro APPEASEMENT paticularly French APPEASEMENT of Islamo-Fascists Abass,Hamas,boycotting,labeling,etc.,etc.,etc. The gratitude was expressed to the French nation in last ‘Fri. night after prayers’ Paris terror rampage .—– Just as the school-yard bully does with his appeasing victims-slap them around continuously.
We must stop APPEASING whether in the Mid-East or anywhere. ISIS/HAMAS/BOKO HARAM just laughs at APPEASERS/COWARDS and get themselves ready to throw more contemptuous terror attacks at us
We must stop the Jew-hating that is banishing our most productive civilized people in exchange for parasites and fifth.column troublemakers.
We must support,not villify, the democratic state of Israel that is putting up with terror on an daily basis.
Vive LaFrance,L’Europe Libre.
@Andrea Rock Massey….. The chance of exchanging 1 productive,tax-paying ,law-abiding,assimilated Jewish person for 500 mostly unskilled ,welfare-dependent and unwilling to assimilate Muslims is too much for our leaders to turn down.
@MulticultBloodbath……..Not directed by Islam whatsoever! Or everything down to the last detail directed by Islam! Try a read about Islamic theoretician Sheik Abu-Bakr Naji.author of ‘The Management of Savagery’ in the New York Post last week.
—”It happened because the Islamic State, the latest version of the Islamo-apocalyptic movement, has decided that Western democracies, representing the “Infidel” world, are no longer prepared to fight even to preserve their comfortable lives. The Paris attacks came on the first day of the Muslim lunar month of Safar, which coincides with the anniversary of the Prophet Mohammed’s first successful “ghazva” (raid) against the “infidel” at Safwan in 623 AD.
The Islamic State is already referring to the Paris attacks as another “ghazva,” promising many more. The aim is to terrorize all mankind into submitting to the diktats of The Only True Faith.—-” http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-jihadis-master-plan-to-break-us/
Spot on Damien Roche. I cringe when I hear these terrorists referrred to as “masterminds”.. It takes a twisted mind to kill over a hundred people. Not a master mind
Its probably only the young impressionable ‘foot soldiers’ who believe the 72 virgins crap, the so called masterminds of these terrorist acts are more than likely psychopaths who only want to kill loads of people
Let’s not excuse these people with any kind of disorders like psychopathy. These are clearly sane people compelled to kill because of a warped violent ideology in much the same way of the nazis. This is what makes this problem truly terrifying
Have you been to Brussels and Belgium much…I have about five times a year for last while…..the Belgians are mental and no community is integrated…..the prostitution in Brussels is shocking….The world record for a democracy going without an elected government is held by Belgium, which went 589 days in 2010-11 because the opposing Flemish and Walloons were unable to agree on policy issues and form a governing coalition following national elections……they don’t get on and immigrants of any colour don’t integrate….name famous Belgian things….beer, chocolate….Poirot…Tin Tin writer…..the stupid kid with funny choiff….the smurfs….Jean Claude Van Damme….and of course ….Marc du Tru….the first person know to lock kids in base,nets abuse and starve them…..and his wife was just released last year from prison……nutty country…..
I personally would have like to have seen him taken alive. You can’t beat information out of a dead man. I’m pretty sure this guy has cohorts planning other attacks.
Yes, that piece of dirt is dead. Pity that they could not take extra information before being crushed like a cockroach.
Anyway in his paradise of innocent killers, he is going to suffer!
He will need to satisfy 40 virgins every day for eternity!!!
I dont understand why they name these people and show their pictures making them martyrs within their own groups.they should be left nameless and disappear into obscurity.is there a reason why they do this??
They don’t need Western media to make them martyrs. These groups are very adept at social media. e.g. There are thousands of pro-ISIS Twitter accounts.
What so he can while away the rest of his days in a cushy Western European radicalising other inmates? Getting clipped is the best outcome for this animal.
I hope he died, burning and screaming and bleeding out on the ground and maybe even lived long enough to look around at his broken smashed body and to see the sweet joy of revenge in his killers eyes.
Wonderful news, well done the RAID and BRI here in France!
Hope he dies screaming, the pig
Won’t bring back my son’s mate. Nor prevent another taking his place
* justice *
Disgusted with some comments on here. Wishing that he could have been taken alive and tortured? We’re all shocked, saddened and angry at the terrorist acts that have taken lives, but that does not mean that we forget our humanity and start baying for human rights violations.
I’d say it to anyone. I think what he did was heinous and he deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law for that. However, I don’t support the death penalty in any form. I’d rather he had been captured and gone to trial so that we could see actual justice at work rather than vengeance.
Ronan, believing that someone can unilaterally decide if someone else is human or not is the road that leads to all this. I’m sure believing that the victims are subhuman makes it a lot easier to justify killing them. And David, I would happily say it to the families of the dead. We do not civilize others by de-civilizing ourselves. This ‘find a scapegoat to enact vengeance upon’ approach might satisfy the masses, but it doesn’t and can’t fix the problem. In fact, I guarantee it will make it worse. Just ask George W.
Good….the sad part is he’s now a role model,a hero for his Sunni Muslim Jihadis throughout Europe…no doubt some Irish folk will exonerate him from his crimes.
A pity. He should have been strung up and displayed in Paris for friends and relatives of the dead and injured to see and given a long and painful death.
I’m always doubtful when they claim the body was so badly damaged they could only positively identify him by a fingerprint… kind like when they “Killed” Osama and took the body away… makes me kinda hope they’ve taken them into captivity to interagate information out of them then put them in a rocket and drop them on the moon telling them “Let Allah, get you out of this one…”
I wish he had been tortured …..a long slow painful death ….. To see the look of fear in HIS eyes!
These people think it’s all about “glory” going to their deaths with the quick blast from a suicide vest ….. well they should be captured and let’s see how brave they would be if slowly tortured . …. let them feel fear too.
Rot in hell… Torture.. Pubic hanging…..No… Place pork products on the corpse….. Take photos…. Bury at secret location…. Show photo to is / friends ect.. Repeat as necessary … That is worse than death to these sub humans… Removes martyrdom Removes 20 vestel virgins Condemns their souls to the worst hell beyond comprehension…… Also works on slow learners
The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates
by Mark Steyn
Steyn on Europe
November 13, 2015
As I write, Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre, a delightful bit of 19th century Chinoiserie on the boulevard Voltaire. The last time I was there, if memory serves, was to see Julie Pietri. I’m so bloody sick of these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like – whether it’s the small Quebec town where my little girl’s favorite fondue restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who hosted me in Copenhagen …or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours. But look at the photographs from Paris: there’s nowhere to get away from it; the barbarians who yell “Allahu Akbar!” are there waiting for you …when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a Friday night. They’re there on the train… at the magazine office… in the Kosher supermarket… at the museum in Brussels… outside the barracks in Woolwich…
If he did get lifted he’s probably at one of Frances black sites and don’t think they don’t have some lovely ones. They have outposts in some of the most god awful places on earth. One of those malaria infested islands of French Guyana would be perfect for the job.
I’m most annoyed at the following-
1. He’s giving Aran sweaters a bad rap.
2. Is it just me or does he look like the plastic masked ‘Burger king’ King weirdo?
I’m an Atheist but if there is a Hell then I hope this depraved cvnt is roasting in it currently screaming his lungs out in agony while he roasts very slowly for all eternity.
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